U+AC3C "갼" Hangul Syllable Gyan Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+AC3C "갼" Hangul Syllable Gyan is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "gyan." It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㄱ" (giyeok), the medial vowel "ㅑ" (ya), and the final consonant "ㄴ" (nieun), which together create a single, unified character as part of the Hangul Syllables block (AC00–D7AF) in Unicode. This encoding allows for efficient text processing and display in digital environments, and like all Hangul syllables, it is used in the Korean language for writing words and conveying phonetic meaning.

General Properties

Code Point U+AC3C
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Gyan
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "갸" U+AC38 Hangul Syllable Gya
"ᆫ" U+11AB Hangul Jongseong Nieun

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 갼
HTML Hex Encoding 갼
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xB0 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding 0xAC3C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000AC3C
C/C++/Java Escape \uac3c

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT Syllable
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Hangul Syllable Type=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter